SKYLARIt's been days since Eganr took control of the whole Kingdom. A lot of Alphas has come down to the palace to pay homage to him.Most of them tried talking to me to come up with a plan to save our kingdoms while most of them were angry with the Alphas for leaving the kingdom in the first place.I tried my best to pacify all of them and gave them the advice Eganr had stuck in my head.“Obey and pay homage to Lord Egnar and you shall be safe.”He planted those words in my head the minute the Alpha's came into the palace. He told me it was my sacred duty.“I need most of this in the chamber of Lord Egnar.” I heard Fiona direct the servants. I'm so lost in thoughts that I have forgotten I'm with her.“What are you doing standing there? Pick something up and work!” She yelled at me “I'm not going to do that.” I said to her, “I'm an Alpha, beside I only take orders from Lord Egnar.” I said to her.“And I'm going to be married to Lord Egnar. Which makes me your Lady Luna.” She says b
KADEN“I'm sorry, I didn't believe you.” Grey said to me, I could see the remorse look on his face.“What do we now?”Ansel asked.“I don't know.” I said breathlessly.“You don't know, you have spearheaded this operation from the very beginning. How do you possibly not know what to do?!” Grey shot at me.“Because I don't know what to do. I'm out of my league here. Just because I was right about the suspicion doesn't mean I know what to do here.” I said to him.“Yeah, you are always right when it's convenient for you.” He snapped at me.“You don't get to talk to me like that. I protested for her not to come here but you assured me she was going to be safe.”“Ansel also made that promise.” He said to me.“Don't bring Ansel into this.” I told him.“Yeah, keep me out of this.” Ansel said.The room was crowded and I was beginning to feel hot and the OCD was coming in full force.“Everybody out!” I thundered and the room shook.Ansel looks at me like he understands what I'm going through.“A
KADEN“I have never been this happy to see you.” Ansel hugged Scott.“Me to, me to.” Scott hugged him back.“What's up Scott.” Grey just greeted him from afar and any time he does that it means he is feeling guilty about something.“How are you doing, Grey?” Scott saluted him from afar.“Is it weird for you to be here?” Ansel asked him.“In wolf territory? Nah, as long as I have my favorite wolves with me, I'm good!” He said smiling.I looked around I saw the second senior soldier I left with Scott. He walked towards me when he made eye contact.“Alph!” He saluted.“At ease, Solider. How are you doing?” I asked him.“Never better. Ready to take the fight wherever you need them to go.”“Awesome.” I said and turned to Scott.“How did you find us? I never told you about this place.” I said to him.“The old woman woke up.” He said.“What?!” I was stunned, when I left she wasn't close to waking up.“Are you kidding me?” I asked“How do you think I found this place? I don't have magical pow
VALERIE I don't know how long I have been trying to hide my powers or pretend that I haven't fully activated them all, but I know it has been hours. I don't even know what time it is, the shrine room isn't open and there are no windows to even know the time through the sky. Octavia has been angry that the powers hadn't been activated and she keeps screaming at everyone, surprisely Silvia as well. That's what you get for worshiping an evil person who only thinks about herself. But she doesn't seem to care but how would I know, she could be pretending just so she won't be torn apart but Octavia. Resisting all the things being done to me is getting old but that's the only way I can buy some more time for Kaden, Ansel and Grey to come get me. I really hope they are safe and not hurt. I really need to ask Kaden for his forgiveness because he predicted all of this. If only I listened to him. I'm about to get myself killed because I wanted a family. But I just needed to feel like I sti
ANSEL“Ansel….” Kaden called out to me. I walked towards his side of the forest, “we have less than a day to find the plant.” “What do you mean less than a day?” I asked him.It's what Scott said.” He pointed at Scott.I Scoffed, “so what are we going to do?” I asked him.“We are just going to have to work faster. Look for the plant a little bit faster.” He said.“That's not a plan.” I said to him.“Well, that's the one we have right now.” Scott said to me.“I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to my brother!” I shot at him.“Well, I'm right here.” He said.“Well, you can piss off.” I said to him rudely and walked back to where I was looking for the plan.I kept hitting the bush as I looked for the plant. I don't know how they don't think this is a waste of time.We should be looking for where Valerie is and charging towards Octavia. Use every power in us to get her to stand down.Looking for an ancient plant to forge a knife off, sounds like a fairy godmother's story.And I can't bel
ANSELThere were a lot of them. I don't know how they could have found us so easily. What am I saying, of course they found us easily. We are in a freaking forest and I decided to yell loudly because I'm trying to make a point to Scott.They all circle around us, each of them holding either a matchet and a gun. They all walk towards us trying to draw us in.“Men stay alert!” I heard Kaden scream at our bodyguards.One of the guards raced towards me with his matchet in hand. I stopped the matchet from hitting me and swung it into his stomach. He drops dead immediately.Immediately he dropped dead, some of the guards began firing shots towards us using their guns.I watched as Grey and some of the men in his corner charged the guards in front of them. Both Grey and the men torn each of them apart.“Have been shot!” One of the men yelled. I raced towards him but one of the guards jumped in front of me.“Let's see how strong you are, Alpha.” He smirks. He was a huge guy with a matchet.I
SKYLARIt's been days since Egnar took over the pack. He has enforced his rules and regulations everywhere and punished anyone that defiles them.Lucky I haven't been called often to witness himself and Fiona's sex life because I'm not challenging him and doing exactly what he asks me to do.But I still haven't been told to see Miles and he won't let me see him and anytime I ask that's one of the reasons I will have to witness their sex life.Most times I just sit in my room so I would be in control of my body. I have tried so many times to try to get a message out to my cousins but I still haven't been able to.The sound of the door knocking jerks me up from my thoughts.I walked towards it and opened the door, “Lord Egnar wants to see you.” The guard said.I rolled my eyes at him. I wonder what Egnar did for him to have this unquestionably loyalty.“I will be right there.” I said, trying to close the door.“Now!” He shot at me, holding the door still. I nodded my head and walked out
SCOTTI couldn't believe what I'm hearing. I haven't heard that voice in a very long time. A lot of things happen and shouldn't. I couldn't hear this voice again but right now I am.“Scott, if you are there I need you to listen.” I heard the voice again.I could walk. I just froze on my feet. I could literally feel it getting cold and numb. It has been years since I heard her voice. It has been years since I heard her speak.It felt like I could breathe again. I could feel my cold dead heart coming back alive. Having a wonderful reaction.“Is everything alright?” I heard Kaden asked.I noticed everyone was in front of me. We began walking out of the forest and we were about to begin our journey to the old woman.“Why aren't you moving, Man?” He asked again.“I can't.” I whispered slowly.“What do you mean you can't?” Ansel asked with a bit of mockery in his tone.“Something is holding me back.” I said and really something was holding me back. A branch of a tree was stuck in my way.“T
SkylarWe were still in the cave- the air damp and smelling of the residual magic from the time the girl had been glowing and speaking of words straight from whatever she got her magic from. She still refused to tell me her name or how powerful she was, she was now sitting across me on the cold stone floor and her little fingers were flipping through the ancient, falling apart pages of the oracle’s book. I wanted to ask her how she was with it when I saw the book burn in front of me but I knew that wasn’t important and when we were done with all of this, I could ask about it. I watched her silently as I wrapped my arms around myself, I had safely kept the vial and gave it to me in my pocket as my head swirled, trying to wrap my mind around what was happening and what had happened. I had nearly died- had been seconds away from execution- only to be pulled into this place by a girl who, by all accounts, shouldn’t have had the power to do so.But she had.And now, here we were.“You’re
ScottFor a second, I almost let it happen but I suddenly got a grip of myself and pushed her away. She moved away from me and the expression on her face was enough to tell me that she was hurt by my rejection She masked it well, her expression was unreadable and her lips were set in a thin line. But from the way her eye was twitching to the way she balled her fingers into fists tightly, her nails digging into her palm, almost drawing blood. Normally, I would have tried to say something to ease the thick tension that clouded up in the air but I didn’t and neither did she say anything relating to it. “You and the children can stay here for the next few days,” she finally spoke up, her voice clipped and void of any emotion. “You need to rest and the children need food. You’ll be safe here.”Safe.The word felt foreign, like someone that was impossible. Because I had never for once felt safe since the take over, and since the moment I ran away with the kids. I nodded, taking in her
ScottMy head was still spinning. Skylar was alive. Relief washed over me in waves and it battled against the confusion that I felt, the one eating at the edges of mind. A part of me wanted to believe it without having questions, to accept that Skylar truly had sent someone to help me, to lessen the burden I had to carry. But, the other part that had been betrayed, captured, hurt and nearly killed refused to let its guard down and I stared at the woman suspiciously. “What’s your name?” I asked her, my voice cold and void of any emotions. “And why would Skyler even send you to me?”“My name is Tori,” she replied, her smile unwavering. “And like I said earlier, Skylar sent me to come help you.”I studied her carefully and when she moved closer to me, I recoiled. She asked me to calm down and then she gave me a potion. She said it would cure me. I didn’t want to believe her but she had convinced me and I had taken it. It had taken the burning pain I was feeling away but I still didn
ScottI ran and ran until my legs begged me to stop and rest, but I didn’t listen. I couldn’t listen. Only one thing was on my mind and that was getting to a safe place far from where anyone could reach us. Out of nowhere, it started raining and I grew weary. That was the last thing that I wanted, it poured down heavily, my clothes clinging to me and making my wounds. My vision was blurry as the rain lashed against my face, entering into my eyes. I ran through the woods, muddy floor and I had no idea where I was going. Normally, I would have been healed, my wounds closed up and my body stronger no matter how much I had been running. But, every time I tried to focus and heal myself, I would feel nothing but excruciating pain. Vervain. When they had captured me and taken me back to their camp, they had injected me with it. The stupid poison was coursing through my veins and eating away at my essence like fire would burn up a paper. It was even worse because it wasn’t just little
SkylarI felt dizzy and the world spun around me. I barely had time to figure out what was going on or what had happened when I felt myself shift and my knees hit a cold and hard ground. I was supposed to be dead. I was this close to getting my head chopped off. The last thing I remembered was the guard with empty eyes raising a machete while Ramona and Coral watched me with amusement as I was about to be killed. I had accepted my fate because not only was I helpless, it was Grey who had asked for me to be killed but-Light. A light erupted, bright and blinding as it shone through the room, affecting me even more because it appeared so close to me. And now, I was here. A cave. The air was thick with the smell of moss and something I couldn’t quite place my hand on, the air was also moist and shadows were cast on the stone walls by the moonlight that shone into the tiny opening of the cave. A lantern was on but it was not bright and I blinked rapidly as I tried to figure out wh
KaidenI was in shock. Skylar was gone. One minute, she was kneeling in the middle of the hall, bleeding, wounded, her voice hoarse and broke as she begged Grey to tell them to stop. She was screaming, scared and trembling from all the exhaustion. Then in the next minute, as the guard raised the machete to behead her, a bright light shone through the room. And a figure emerged out of nothingness. It was the girl that had saved me- the one that had healed me and found a way to lessen the effect of the poison that had been given to me. The girl was facing away from us so I could see the look on her face. Coral looked surprised and so did Ramona- they had been looking for the girl and she had just appeared in front of them out of nowhere. Before I could figure out why she was here, she placed her hand on Skylar and they both disappeared. Gone. Like they had never been there in the first place. I stared at the empty space- the place she had once been, begging- and my body went ri
RamonaAfter Coral stalked away with a cold unreadable expression on her face after we had argued and I was left standing there confused. I didn’t understand why she looked at me like that. Like she was hurt that I had gone against her and she wanted to hurt me and draw my blood. I didn’t mean to go against her but, her saying I should stop my marriage to Grey was unbelievable. She knew this was what I had wanted for a very long time. I wouldn’t just throw all of it away because I wanted to please. Because Skylar had disappeared. We were in power now- in control, no one was going to win against us and I was sure we would find Skylar in no time. So, I didn’t know what the fuss was about. I dismissed everyone and stormed back to my room, not waiting for Grey to follow me. If he was really under my control, he would know what to do. Getting to my room, I slammed the door shut behind me. The sound of the door closing had echoed through the room and it felt like the walls were comin
CoralThe anger I felt was like none I had ever felt in the past. It burned hot, unrelenting and through my veins as it clawed its way to my chest like a beast that hungry blood, and would do anything to get it.Skylar was gone.Gone.Vanished before my very eyes like smoke in the wind.That girl—the one I had been desperately searching for had appeared out of nowhere, and in an instant, almost like she hadn’t appeared in the hall at all, she had stolen what was mine and had disappeared with it.And now, Skylar that was once wounded, bruised, and broken was no longer in the middle of the hall where I was getting the satisfaction of watching her bleed and beg in pain. My fists curled at my sides and turned away from the crowd towards Ramona, glaring daggers at her.“This is all your fault,” I gritted out through clenched teeth, my voice dangerously low and venomous. Ramona blinked, surprised but quickly regaining herself. She let out a scoff, rolling her eyes as she waved her hand i
ValerieI smiled in my head, satisfied when I saw that Coral was now plotting against Ramona. One thing about who has a thirst for power that wasn’t theirs or people who loved making people suffer was that they didn’t trust anyone- not even theirselves. And now that Coral had asked Ramona to do something not Ramona straight up rejecting and refusing to do it, Coral mind was made up that she was going to be eventually betrayed by Ramona. But my victory was bitter because even as I savored my success, I learned something else- something that made my insides burn.Ramona was planning her engagement to Grey and the thought of it alone made me sick.Even after all she had done, after taking away his free will, after turning him into her puppet- she still wanted more.She wanted to own him completely and I wanted to scream. To fight.To burn everything to the ground before I let her take him.But I couldn’t because I was nothing.An echo. A prisoner. A ghost trapped in my own body, curs